One can only imagine the brainstorming sessions that raged among Buick's marketing execs when they tried to sell the Kadett to Americans. Why not use elephants? Everyone likes elephants!

This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot. We Americans often forget that The General's Chevette was sold all over the world (as an Opel Kadett, Isuzu Gemini, or Pontiac Acadian), and the version built in New…

This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot. Today we've got some shots by Project Car Hell Poster Child and serial tipster Franzouse, whose Paris wanderings led him to this riot-proof Kadett. Is Franzouse…

We don't care if it sucked. We don't care if it seemed dumb to call a car a "Chevette" that wasn't branded as a Chevrolet. We don't care if it was even briefly sold as a "Buick-Opel." What we care about is that is that it was a rear-drive hatchback that could be had for cheap, and in Chevrolet guise was actually sold…

Reader Tony is a man after our own soul. And he left skidmarks on it in the form of what he claims will be a rapidly-expanding collection of truckcar photos he's taken along the way. Take this Kadettamino, for example: according to Tony, it was used to deliver supplies at an event called the Fusion Festival. Which, to…